Noise & Capitalism is an ongoing collective research platform dedicated to
reflect in the way that capitalism conditions our life in relation to the practices of noise and improvisation.
The practices of noise and improvisation have historically claim to be able to achieve
some emancipation, agency and empowerment.
We want to explore and question this potential.
We understand that contemporary forms of alienation are determining our subjectivity by simultaneously producing in us a questionable sense of agency and valuing whatever might be “unmediated” or unique experiences.
Noise and improvisation can be practices of risk and disturbance, not only in regards to the music industry but also to the current financialization of contemporary culture. This initiative takes these risks as a practice of social responsibility hoping that I could take us beyond phoney senses of freedom. Can we push alienation further in order to desubjectify ourselves from the type of individual self-expressive liberal subject that capitalism relays on in order to reproduce itself?
The project comprises different stages and approaches as the publication of a book, the organisation of seminars, presentations and conferences and other public presentation such as concerts and improvisational collective events. It was initiated through the publication of a book edited by Mattin and Anthony Iles and has contributions by authors: Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Nina Power, Edwin Prévost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson.
The publication was launched within the context of a seminar entitled Noise & Capitalism: Undoing, Understanding and Sharing time together held in Audiola-Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastián.
More recently the project has been extended at CAC Brétigny (Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny) outside Paris under the title Noise & Capitalism: Exhibition as Concert (August-October 2010). Taking as a starting point the book Noise & Capitalism the CAC exhibition context became an improvised concert lasting for two months. By collapsing the formats of exhibition and concert into each other, the potential of the different usages of the noun noise explored rather than simply perpetuated noise as a musical genre. The exhibition comprised of interventions by Mattin, Loïc Blairon, Ray Brassier, Emma hedditch, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Anthony Iles, Matthieu Saladin and Howard Slater.
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